“You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”
― Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
― Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
“Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
“I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
“I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
“I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
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